{"id":578,"date":"2005-09-24T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=578"},"modified":"2005-09-24T09:16:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T14:16:03","slug":"on-unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"On Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/\">TPMCafe<\/a> Larry Johnson writes an article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/story\/2005\/9\/23\/214938\/053\">Endangering America<\/a> which looks at the unintended consequences of Bush&#8217;s Middle-East policies.  His three main points are these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of reducing terrorism, Islamic terrorism is spreading dramatically.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of winning new supporters for democracy, the war in Iraq is spurring the recruitment and training radical jihadists.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of creating a &#8220;City on the Hill&#8221; that other nations in the Middle East will emulate, Iraq is fissuring and setting the stage for a regional ethnic and religious civil war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing really new in Johnson&#8217;s article that I haven&#8217;t read elsewhere, but he summarizes the problems the Iraq adventure has caused and will cause into the future.  Johnson paints a bleak portrait, one that anyone harboring concerns should consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on TPMCafe Larry Johnson writes an article entitled Endangering America which looks at the unintended consequences of Bush&#8217;s Middle-East policies. His three main points are these: Instead of reducing terrorism, Islamic terrorism is spreading dramatically. Instead of winning new supporters for democracy, the war in Iraq is spurring the recruitment and training radical jihadists.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=578\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Unintended Consequences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,387,4108],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-iraq","tag-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}